IDRC - Celebrating 25 Years
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Highlights of Recent Activity
January 28, 2019
Happy 2019 - the IDRC continues to be busy with ongoing projects, new ones, and other engagement.
- IDRC director Jutta Treviranus presented recently at DemocracyXChange on Democracy and evidence at the edges; slides from her presentation are available at this link. For in-depth discussion of the topics raised, Jutta's blog has many more articles.
- The Designing Inclusive Cities project has concluded, producing both a detailed record of the co-design process specific to the project and a toolkit of co-design resources that can be repurposd for other consultative co-design activities.
- Members of the Platform Cooperative Development Kit travelled to Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India in November for user experience co-design work with members of the SEWA Co-Op Federation. Notes from the workshop are available.
Latest News
Announcing the Coding to Learn and Create Project
June 18 2019, OCAD University, Toronto - The IDRC is proud to announce that the Coding to Learn and Create project has been funded by the Government of Canada under the Accessible Technology Program. The Honourable Carla Qualtrough, Minister of Public Services and Procurement and Accessibility, announced the funding on May 29th 2019 at an event hosted by OCAD University.
For Coding to Learn and Create, the IDRC and Bridges Canada will develop new inclusive educational coding tools that will support the participation of students with complex learning needs, and will share critically-needed teaching resources and strategies to help educators teach more inclusively.
Visit the Coding to Learn and Create website (https://www.codelearncreate.org/) to learn more and get involved.
Featured Projects
FLOE
FLOE provides the resources needed to enable inclusive access to personally relevant, engaging learning opportunities for the full diversity of learners and content producers. Through the Open Education Resources community, FLOE makes tools available that transform, augment, and personalize the learning experience.
Inclusive Cities
Inclusive Cities - the IDRC is working with the Sidewalk Toronto team to help create accessibility and inclusion principles. Sidewalk Toronto is a joint effort between Alphabet’s Sidewalk Labs and Waterfront Toronto to use smart technology and new construction techniques to develop a piece of land on Toronto’s eastern waterfront.
Automated Personalization Computer Project (APCP)
APCP (funded by Technology Innovation Program of the Rehabilitation Services Administration, U.S. Deptartment of Education) - In collaboration with the American Job Centers, community colleges, and high schools, the APCP project will help take the auto-personalization function of the Global Public Inclusive Infrastructure (GPII) from the proof-of-concept stage through to a high-quality, broadly-used open source implementation. Led by the TRACE Center at the University of Maryland, the IDRC is contributing to the project’s overall software architecture, security and web personalization infrastructure, and individualized metrics-gathering tools.
Cloud4all
Cloud4all is an European Commission FP7 grant that will develop key parts of the Global Public Inclusive Infrastructure (GPII), building the knowledge base and algorithms needed and evaluating the ability of the concept to work across platforms, technologies and applications.